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  • September 2016
  • Article

Monitoring Global Supply Chains

By: Jodi L. Short, Michael W. Toffel and Andrea R. Hugill
Firms seeking to avoid reputational spillovers that can arise from dangerous, illegal, and unethical behavior at supply chain factories are increasingly relying on private social auditors to provide strategic information about suppliers' conduct. But little is known... View Details
Keywords: Monitoring; Transaction Cost Economics; Industry Self-regulation; Auditing; Codes Of Conduct; Supply Chains; Corporate Social Responsibility; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Supply Chain; Globalization
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    Baiyun Jing

    Baiyun Jing is a doctoral student in the Business Economics program. Her research interests lie in behavioral economics, macroeconomics, and econometrics. She graduated with a B.A. in Economics from Tsinghua University in 2023.View Details

      Joshua R. Schwartzstein

      Joshua Schwartzstein is a Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit. 

      Professor Schwartzstein is a behavioral economist who focuses on incorporating psychologically realistic assumptions about... View Details

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      Survive Another Day: Using Changes in the Composition of Investments to Measure the Cost of Credit Constraints

      By: Luis Garicano and Claudia Steinwender
      We introduce a novel empirical strategy to measure the size of credit shocks. Theoretically, we show that credit shocks reduce the value of long-term relative to short-term investments. Empirically, we can therefore compare the reduction of long-term relative to... View Details
      Keywords: Credit Constraints; Credit Crunch; Spain; Investment Behavior; Credit Squeeze; Financial Crisis; Economic Growth; Investment; Credit; Manufacturing Industry; Spain; European Union
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        Matthew Rabin

        Matthew Rabin is the Pershing Square Professor of Behavioral Economics in the Harvard Economics Department and Harvard Business School.

        Before that, he spent 25 years at the wonderful University of California, Berkeley Economics Department.  His research... View Details

          Samuel G. Hanson

          Samuel G. Hanson is the William L. White Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Harvard Economics department. He teaches Finance 1... View Details

          Keywords: asset management; banking; brokerage; federal government; financial services; investment banking industry
          • Research Summary

          Overview

          Hisano’s research addresses the social and cultural implications of technological development and economic changes mainly in the twentieth-century United States. By analyzing the regulation, manipulation, and presentation of food color, her current book project links... View Details
          Keywords: Business History; Consumer Behavior; Agribusiness; Food And Environment; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Business And Government; Advertising; Goods and Commodities; Food; History; Government and Politics; Marketing; Business and Government Relations; Advertising Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Chemical Industry; United States
          • November 2012
          • Article

          The Organization of Firms Across Countries

          By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
          We argue that social capital as proxied by trust increases aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the decentralization of investment, hiring, production, and sales decisions from Corporate Headquarters to local... View Details
          Keywords: Decentralization; Social Capital; Theory Of The Firm; Firm Objectives, Organization, And Behavior; Business Economics; Management Of Technological Innovation And R＆D; Technological Change: Choices And Consequences; Diffusion Processes; Organizational Structure; Performance Productivity; Trust; Technology Adoption; Multinational Firms and Management
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          • Forthcoming
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          Consumer Choice and Corporate Bankruptcy

          By: Samuel Antill and Megan Hunter
          We estimate the indirect costs of corporate bankruptcy associated with lost customers. In incentivized experiments, randomly informing consumers about a firm’s Chapter 11 reorganization lowers their willingness to pay for the firm’s products by 17%-28%. Consumers worry... View Details
          Keywords: Consumer Choice; Bankruptcy; Financial Distress; Structural Estimation; Experimental Economics; Hertz; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Perception; Consumer Behavior
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          • July 2021
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          The Effect of Price on Firm Reputation

          By: Michael Luca and Oren Reshef
          While a business's reputation can affect its pricing, prices can also affect its reputation. To explore the effect of prices on reputation, we investigate daily data on menu prices and online ratings from a large rating and ordering platform. We find that a price... View Details
          Keywords: Pricing; Reputation Systems; IT Policy And Management; Economics Of Digital Platforms; Business Ventures; Reputation; Price; Consumer Behavior; Analysis
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            John Beshears

            John Beshears is the Albert J. Weatherhead Jr. Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit, teaching the second-year MBA course "Negotiation." He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.... View Details

              Ryann Noe

              Ryann Noe is a doctoral candidate in the Organizational Behavior program jointly offered by Harvard Business School and the Department of Sociology at Harvard University.

              Her research examines how industries and technologies emerge and evolve, with a focus... View Details

                Robin Greenwood

                Robin is the George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking at Harvard Business School. He serves as the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research. He is past faculty director of the Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability project, chair of... View Details

                Keywords: banking; financial services

                  Brian J. Hall

                  Brian J. Hall is the Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He served as the Unit Head for the Negotiation, Organizations and Markets (NOM) Unit for 14 years. Previously, he was an assistant professor of economics in the... View Details

                  Keywords: accounting industry; consulting; consumer products; executive search; financial services; high technology; investment banking industry; management consulting; private equity (LBO funds); restaurant; sports; venture capital industry
                  • 11 Feb 2019
                  • Blog Post

                  John Bracaglia, MBA 2020: “I Want to Find the Machine Learning Strategy That Avoids the Pitfalls While Fulfilling the Promise.”

                  For John Bracaglia, his academic and professional careers have been driven by two themes: “machine learning and behavioral economics,” he says. “The two work together. Machine learning is about how computers understand information, while... View Details
                  Keywords: Technology; Entrepreneurship

                    Anke Becker

                    Anke Becker is an Assistant Professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School.

                    Anke’s areas of research include economic development, political economy, economics of gender, and behavioral economics. Her recent work examines culture... View Details

                    • Research Summary

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                    Yanhua Bird's research encompasses two streams: (1) entrepreneurship and social innovation — how the design and structure of alternative forms of enterprises influence their activities and success, with a focus on peer-to-peer markets and social enterprises, and (2)... View Details
                    Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Strategy; Social Evaluation; Entrepreneurship; Social Innovation; Social Movements; Non-market Strategy; Corporate Sustainability

                      Claire Shi

                      Claire Shi is a doctoral student in Business Economics at Harvard Business School. Her research interests are in behavioral and household finance. She graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. in Applied Mathematics in 2021. For more information, please visit her... View Details

                        Rx: Human Nature

                        April 2013 Harvard Business Review article by Professor Ashraf about behavioral economics and global health. View Details

                          Reshmaan N. Hussam

                          Reshmaan Hussam is an associate professor of business administration in the Business, Government and International Economy Unit, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and a faculty affiliate at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty... View Details